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,SHOBTQNGUE FASTENING. No. 385,045. Patented June Z6, 1888.

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Ntra STATES i CHARLES F. OROWELL, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

SHOE-TONGUE FASTENlNG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,045, dated .Tune26, 1888i.`

Application filed October 5,1887.

To all whom t may concern:

Beitknown that I, CHARLES F. CaoWnLL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon,haveiinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-TongueFasteuings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in providing a shoetongue with a hook or studwhich projects up through an eyelet in the slit strip of the shoe, andaround which the shoe lacing is Wound, securing the tongue in place bythe lacing of the shoe. When the tongue is secured to the bottom or theside oi the shoe-slit in the ordinary way, a hook or stud at the upperfree corner of the tongue is caused to project th rough an eyelet whenthe shoeis being laced, the eyelet being in line with the hooks on theshoe. On passing the shoe-lacing around the hook the tongue is securedagainst slipping and wrinkling.

Myinvention can also be used for fastening the tongue to the shoe inplace ofsewing it in, as is usually done. In this case hooks at thelower extremity ofthe tongue,inserted through eyelets at the base ofeither slit strip, are held in place by the lacing passing over them.

In the accompanying drawings, which illus trate my invention, Figure lis a View of a shoe-tongue having a projecting stud or hook and a laceshoe having the necessary eyelet. Fig. 2 is a view of a tongue laced toashoe and held in place by the same means. Fig. 3 is a view in detail ofthe eyelet, hook, and lacing; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view.

A I3 are the slit strips having the hooks a c a, in the usual manner.

C is the shoe-tongue sewed at the bottom and on one side to strip A.

c is the hook on the free end of the tongue, and d is the eyelet inthetop of strip B,through which the hook projects when laced, as shownin Fig. 3.

Serial No. 251.546. (No model.)

In Fig. 2, e c are the hooks at the lower end ofthe tongue, andff theeyelets in the strips A B, through which they pass. c c are the upperhooks, and d d their corresponding eyelets.

I do not confine myself to the use of this kind of fastening in shoesalone. It may readily be used with leggins, corsets, and such garmentswhere the object is the covering of a slit formed by the lacing togetherof two sides with atongue secured in place at the same time. Such a usewould be obviously within the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new', and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In alooot, shoe, leggiu, or similar article, theeombination, with aflap having an eyelet, of a tongue having a hook adapted to projectthrough the eyelet, and a lacing whereby the'tongueis retained iu placeby the lacing engaging with the hook above the eyelet, substantially asdescribed.

, 2. The combination, with a shoe having eyelets, as described, of ashoe-tongue having hooks adapted to project through the eyelets, and ashoe-lacing whereby the tongue is held iu place and the slice laced up,substantially as hercinbefore set forth.

In a shoe, the combination of the strip A, the tongue C, securedthereto, the strip B, hook c, eyelet d, and lacingstring, substantiallyas described.

4. The combination of a shoe having the strip A, strip B, tongue C,hooks e e c c, eyeletsff d d', and lacingstring, substantially as setforth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES F. CROWELL.

Witnesses:

G. G. GAMMANs, J oHN ANDREW.

